Sentences with phrase «for adaptive mutations»

Not exact matches

Determining whether individual mutations are deleterious, or even adaptive, would require functional analysis; however, the rate of nonsynonymous mutations suggests that continued progression of this epidemic could afford an opportunity for viral adaptation (Fig. 4H), underscoring the need for rapid containment.

Even after the cells were taken out of microgravity for up to 30 generations before being combined with the control strain, they maintained 72 per cent of their adaptive advantage, pointing to permanent mutations in the genes rather than merely a temporary adjustment.

The authors suggest that the mutation might have had an adaptive advantage for modern humans, who migrated out of Africa into Europe and Asia beginning about 60,000 years ago.

«Despite the experimental data provided here, it is impossible to clearly establish whether the adaptive mutations observed were in part responsible for the extended duration of the 2013 — 16 epidemic,» they write in their paper.

Among other findings, SWIF (r) identified several adaptive mutations in a set of genes responsible for energy and fat storage.